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MARCH 26, 2019

Given that kids spend nearly 1,000 hours each year in class , teachers play a primary role: They not only foster the academic environment around students, but are also largely responsible for supporting children’s emotional and mental health throughout their school years. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School in Elgin, even though both are in Elgin Area School District U-46. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. Still, even in districts that don’t systematically spend less on high-poverty schools, overall, inequities remain. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Early data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows college enrollments down this fall for the second year in a row. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It How do I want to contribute?’ ” Savitz-Romer said.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When devising a definition of “reading disability” based on the population of nine- to 11-year-olds on the island, the researchers distinguished between poor readers who read at levels predicted by their IQs and those who did not, looking for evidence of dyslexia only in those in the latter group. The studies came just as the U.S.

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MAY 11, 2016

Many high school students aren’t ready for college, lacking both academic and independent living skills, research shows. Exclusive private schools and charter schools like High Tech High are pioneering other innovative ideas. But making better use of senior year is about more than dual enrollment.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school. Public schools in Holmes County will start school online next month. She also spoke at a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, an advocacy group.

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MARCH 29, 2018

“No one has ever asked them that,” said Julio Garcia, a consulting senior research psychologist at Stanford who studies how assumptions people make about them — largely based on stereotypes — have as much of an impact on the success of students as their aptitude and preparation. . “Where do you want to go to college?”

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JUNE 6, 2022

“Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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JULY 16, 2018

Pre-K 4 SA uses a research-based curriculum called High Scope, which stresses a hands-on approach to developing memory, creativity, problem solving, and self-control. Parents say the instruction at Pre-K 4 SA is as good as any they’ve seen at private schools. Related: Finding a good preschool isn’t easy: Try it.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Taken together, school facilities emit about 72 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year , the equivalent of about 18 coal power plants or 8.6 million homes, according to the climate advocacy organization Generation180. That American school buildings aren’t in good shape shouldn’t be news. Credit: CMTA.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Race, and racial bias, can also play a role in whether families are referred to and investigated by child protective services, research suggests. Research reveals racial disparities at every step , from the numbers of calls to the child welfare hotline to the numbers of investigations and court findings of neglect. .

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JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. Related: What the research says about the best ways to engage parents. Keri Rodrigues, National Parents Union president. “We

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Batchelor and another former school board member, Bret Gist, recalled hearing from longtime residents who were enrolling their children in private schools or leaving Russellville because they didn’t want their kids to be “the minority.” Teachers experimented, made their lessons more hands-on and followed the latest research.

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JULY 21, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. Emma Mancha-Sumners, a research scientist and mother of three. I’m usually 10 minutes late to Zoom meetings on my own.

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JUNE 5, 2018

New research shows that private schools are contributing to America’s educational woes. Public schools have long been scrutinized. It’s long past time we took a critical look at private schools. educational system based on a bedrock of evidence that its public schools were failing.

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MAY 23, 2020

“The information presented was based on the most current research available at the time.”. Mead teaches at a private school where he is given the freedom to explore climate change in depth. Meanwhile, the state review process for textbooks has in some cases kept problematic texts from entering classrooms.

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JULY 6, 2016

Related: ‘Heartbroken’ Mississippi educators wonder what’s next after school funding failure at polls. According to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data, nine of the ten states with the most rapid Hispanic growth are located below the Mason-Dixon Line. White flight from urban areas caused further re-segregation.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X, the notion that separate and equal is not only possible, but in some cases preferable, has been a rallying point for those who believe that black educators should be the ones designing and leading schools for black children. But that may not tell the whole story, Teasley says. The trade-off.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

But the specifics of how those dollars are meted out have been hidden, making it difficult to know how money is spent in each school building. One of the biggest obstacles to fixing inequality in school spending is figuring out how much schools actually spend. spends less.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Whether the Trump administration will approach the case differently is unclear.

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JULY 20, 2022

I started this research cautiously optimistic that vouchers could help. But in 2022 the evidence is just too stark to justify the use of public money to fund private tuition. Particularly when other choice options like charter schools and inter-district enrollment are available to families and have a better track record.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

His wife, Leslie Johnson-Simmons, said she saw her creative, smart and chatty daughter retreat into herself as she tried to learn to spell like other first graders in her class at a private school in Louisiana. Her parents say she has thrived at the school. She began to clam up, and that wasnt my child, Johnson-Simmons said.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Julie Peller, executive director of the bipartisan, nonprofit advocacy group known as Higher Learning Advocates, praised Bloomberg’s plan for recognizing “that the demographics and needs of learners today have changed,” and for including a focus on completion and earning outcomes for low-income students.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The 50-50 Senate confirmation vote – broken only by Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaker – means the pro-choice DeVos, who attended private schools and sent her children to them – will take the helm. She should visit classrooms and campuses and consult research and data. Not anymore. King , the former U.S.

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